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Auction History Result 4m0047 FRIENDLY PERSUASION final draft hardcover script Aug 18, 1955 by Robert Wyler & Jessamyn West Date Sold 6/11/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 163 pages) (Learn More) William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion, the 1956 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Civil War military family melodrama ("It Will Pleasure You in a Hundred Ways!"; "In gorgeous color"; "Gary Cooper's best since 'High Noon'"; "A great star and a new star make 'Friendly Persuasion'!"; "The world's most talked - about motion picture!"; "From the Book by Jessamyn West"; "Hear Pat Boone"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a family of Quakers who are opposed to violence, and how they deal with the Civil War raging around them; to me, Gary Cooper was mis-cast in this role!) starring Gary Cooper ("in the towering role that tops even his 'High Noon', brings you the sensational new star..."), Dorothy McGuire, Richard Eyer (billed as "Featuring Richard Eyer"), Robert Middleton, Phyllis Love, Peter Mark Richman (billed as "Mark Richman"), Walter Catlett, Marjorie Main (billed as "The Widow Hudspeth"), and Anthony Perkins (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; billed as "Introducing the most exciting new star since James Dean... Anthony Perkins") NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script is the final draft from August 18, 1955 and the screenplay was written by Jessamyn West and Robert Wyler. Note that the script has a professional hardcover binding, which has information about the movie and the studio Allied Artists embossed on the cover. Note that the screenplay for this movie was based on a 1946 "treatment" written by Michael Wilson from the book by Jessamyn West. That treatment was then abandoned, and in 1955, Robert Wyler (brother of director William Wyler) and Jessamyn West wrote this screenplay. On this script, someone put "[Wilson, Michael]" in light pencil under the credited names, no doubt because they felt that Michael Wilson deserved credit for his original treatment from nine years before! Mr. Wilson asked the Screen Writers Guild for screenwriting credit, and they agreed with him, but apparently that was because they believed that West and Wyler had based their screenplay on the then ten year old treatment by Wilson. That may or may not be true, but it seems likely that Wilson did not directly contribute to the writing of the script we are auctioning here. Condition: very good. The interior pages have slightly darkened around the edges and there are some slight stains around the edges of the hardcover, but otherwise, the script is in pretty nice condition! See our multiple images to get a good sense of the exact condition of this script. Learn More about condition grades 
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